---
type: "Bill"
title: "Labor and employment, independent contractors, establishment of portable benefits accounts"
description: "Labor & Employment"
jurisdiction: "us/states/al"
legislature: "Alabama Legislature"
session: "2025rs"
identifier: "SB 86"
citation: "Alabama SB 86 (2025rs)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Labor & Employment"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Orr"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 22
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-02-04T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-10T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/78506874-48be-40fd-92b0-df2842f72dbf"
source_url: "https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/bill-search"
source_hash: "3486b77f39fee9dd9cb2c9444a0be3a0a9f6d7f72606f9dcea0a10527de4c758"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-al"]
---

# Alabama SB 86 (2025rs) — Labor and employment, independent contractors, establishment of portable benefits accounts

Labor & Employment

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/SB86-int.pdf)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/SB86-eng.pdf)
3. **Orr motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 42** (committee substitute) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/3FMWZVV-1.pdf)
4. **Orr motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 43** (committee substitute) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/8A1JF2F-1.pdf)
5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/SB86-enr.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Orr — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2025-04-10T04:00:00+00:00** Enacted `became-law`
- **2025-04-03T04:00:00+00:00** Signature Requested
- **2025-04-03T04:00:00+00:00** Delivered to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-02T04:00:00+00:00** Enrolled
- **2025-04-01T04:00:00+00:00** Ready to Enroll
- **2025-04-01T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass - Adopted Roll Call 591 `passage`
- **2025-04-01T04:00:00+00:00** Third Reading in Second House
- **2025-03-19T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar (Ways and Means Education)
- **2025-03-19T04:00:00+00:00** Reported Out of Committee Second House
- **2025-02-12T05:00:00+00:00** Pending Committee Action in Second House (Ways and Means Education)
- **2025-02-12T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means Education `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-11T05:00:00+00:00** Engrossed
- **2025-02-11T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass as Amended - Adopted Roll Call 44 `passage`
- **2025-02-11T05:00:00+00:00** Orr motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 43
- **2025-02-11T05:00:00+00:00** Orr 2nd Amendment Offered `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-02-11T05:00:00+00:00** Orr motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 42
- **2025-02-11T05:00:00+00:00** Orr 1st Amendment Offered `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-02-11T05:00:00+00:00** Third Reading in House of Origin
- **2025-02-05T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar (Finance and Taxation General Fund)
- **2025-02-05T05:00:00+00:00** Reported Out of Committee House of Origin
- **2025-02-04T05:00:00+00:00** Pending Committee Action in House of Origin (Finance and Taxation General Fund)
- **2025-02-04T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the Senate Committee on Finance and Taxation General Fund `reading-1, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/78506874-48be-40fd-92b0-df2842f72dbf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alabama legislature records).